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Turnout at the 1931 general election

Turnout at every general election since 1918, and the constituencies with the highest and lowest turnout.

0%21%42%62.9%83.9%1918: 57.2%19181922: 72.9%1923: 71.1%1924: 77.0%19241929: 76.3%1931: 76.4%1935: 71.1%19351945: 72.8%1950: 83.9%1951: 82.6%19511955: 76.8%1959: 78.7%1964: 77.1%19641966: 75.8%1970: 72.0%F1974: 78.8%F1974O1974: 72.8%1979: 75.9%1983: 71.8%19831987: 75.3%1992: 77.7%1997: 71.4%19972001: 59.4%2005: 61.5%2010: 65.1%20102015: 66.2%2017: 68.8%2019: 67.3%20192024: 59.7%
Turnout at each general election (valid votes / electorate, contested seats)

Highest turnout, 1931

  1. Lancashire Darwen 92.2%
  2. Burnley 91.8%
  3. Accrington 89.6%
  4. Cumberland Whitehaven 89.6%
  5. Darlington 89.5%
  6. Lancashire Clitheroe 89.3%
  7. Wednesbury 89.0%
  8. Barrow in Furness 88.9%
  9. Lincoln 88.9%
  10. Rochdale 88.8%

Lowest turnout

  1. Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Western Isles 36.8%
  2. Southwark South East 54.1%
  3. Shoreditch 55.9%
  4. Holborn 56.7%
  5. West Ham Silvertown 57.1%
  6. Islington West 58.0%
  7. Stepney Limehouse 58.1%
  8. Finsbury 58.1%
  9. Camberwell North 58.3%
  10. Poplar South Poplar 58.6%

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